May Day....May Day

Here we are at the first of May, rushing in with a cold rain that chills to the bone.

We have barely crept above 5C today, and the drizzle is continuing.

Our Days have been, and will be, spent getting ready for our Plant Sale that happens on May17th and 18th. Prior to that we are participating in a Member Sale for the Rhododendron Soc. in Halifax this coming Tuesday.

The Member Sale for us is very much dependent upon fitting a given number of plants in the car. This year and last we "invited" the members to pre-order plants from a given list. This worked very well for both them and us. The unnecessary lugging of plants was eliminated from our jaunt.

Bill has most of the "ordered" plants all dug and potted. It is quite amazing to us that one of the most popular plants is the humble, but fragrant February Daphne (Daphne mezureum).

We did have a quick walk around the yard today, but everything is looking quite droopy with the rain.

The narcissus are just getting underway, so there will be lots to welcome there.

This little Jetfire is among the first.

This other group was pleasantly surrounded by Chionodoxa...all of which were quite floppy after all the rain.

I was surprised to see Fidelity showing some colour, as are the Hyacinths. I am always pleasantly surprised when they make a good reappearance.Most of the earliest are the yellow trumpet daffodils, and a lot of Ice Follies.

The only tulip showing colour is Prastans unicum.The Crown Imperial Fritillaria are growing quite rapidly. I do hope there is not a nasty frost in the next week to damage the emerging flower buds.

As usual, the Lady's Mantle look fabulous after a rain.